Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz analyzed how the ancient Talmud 

 might illuminate contemporaty understanding of the 

 challenges of justice, statecraft, and authority. 



of the museum's American Indian Program, made the 

 presentation and a similar one the next day at the Tribal 

 Building in Zuni, New Mexico. 



November Ij— 14 



■ Conference In collaboration with the Exxon Educa- 

 tion Foundation, the Office of the Assistant Secretary 

 for Public Service cosponsored a national teacher educa- 

 tion conference in Washington, D.C. 



November i$ 



■ Regent Ira Michael Heyman, former chancellor of the 

 University of California at Berkeley, became a member 

 of the Smithsonian Board of Regents. 



November 18 



■ Exhibition "The Arts of China," a new installation 

 featuring 228 masterworks of Chinese art dating from 

 the fourth millennium B.C. into the 20th century, 

 opened at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Largely drawn 

 from the gallery's permanent collection, the ancient rit- 

 ual jades and bronzes, Buddhist sculpture and wall 

 paintings, glass, lacquer, furniture, and paintings reflect 

 the complex artistic heritage of China. 



November ip 



U Seminar To observe International Literacy Year, the 

 Office of Interdisciplinary Studies organized a day-long 

 public seminar, "Issues of Literacy," in cooperation with 

 the Washington, D.C, Public Library and PLAN, Inc. 

 (Push Literacy Action Now). 



November 22 



■ Exhibition "Harlem: Photographs by Aaron Siskind, 

 1932-1940" opened at the National Museum of Ameri- 

 can Art, presenting a major new photography collection 

 of the museum. 



November 27 



■ Zuni Project At the Pueblo Cultural Center in Albu- 

 querque, New Mexico, members of the Zuni Tribal 

 Council were presented copies of 3,500 historic black- 

 and-white photographs of their people and pueblo from 

 the National Museum of Natural History's National An- 

 thropological Archives. JoAllyn Archambault, director 



November 2J—J0 



■ Seminar The Smithsonian National Associate Pro- 

 gram offered the Smithsonian Seminar "Update: Eastern 

 Europe," attended by more than 100 Associates. Speak- 

 ers included journalists Peter Jennings and Hedrick 

 Smith. 



November 28 



■ Exhibition The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture 

 Garden's 1990-91 series of WORKS site-specific pro- 

 jects, supported by a $30,000 grant from the Andy 

 Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., was 

 launched with "Lawrence Wiener WORKS," a text 

 piece developed by this Amsterdam-based American art- 

 ist for the coffers above the third-floor escalator lobby. 

 Later in the year, the collaborative team of Ann Hamil- 

 ton and Kathryn Clark applied a translucent wax skin 

 over the third-floor windows to create "view," a meta- 

 phor about extinction and loss. 



November 29 



■ Benefit The Archives of American Art cosponsoted 

 "An Artist's Christmas: Holiday Images by American 

 Artists, 1880-1990" with Midtown Payson Galleries, 

 New York City, to benefit the Archives' Oral History 

 Program. 



November 29 



■ Visitor Panama Vice-President Arias Calderon vis- 

 ited the Smithsonian to discuss activities of the 

 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and 

 other opportunities for Smithsonian-Panamanian 

 cooperation. 



December 



■ Project The Visitor Information and Associates' Re- 

 ception Center completed the first update of the Quad- 

 rangle Patrons' Register. 



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